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World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler embraces anonymity in Paris
PARIS -- World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler conceded that he felt star-struck in the Louvre, taking in some of the Paris sights with his family before turning his attention to the men's Olympic competition that begins Thursday at Le Golf National.,Scheffler, who bagged a second U.S. Masters title in Apri...
Simone Biles shakes injury, practices ahead of Tuesday final
PARIS -- Simone Biles participated in practice a day after the American made a triumphant return to the Olympic stage despite being hobbled by pain in her left calf, her mother Nellie told the live crew on NBC's Today Show in France on Monday.,The four-time Olympic champion left the competition area...
Team USA's Lee Kiefer wins second Olympic gold in foil
PARIS -- Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs gave the United States gold and silver in the women's foil on Sunday as France had another night of frustration in their quest for a Paris Olympics fencing title, with Japan's Koki Kano winning the epee final.,Kiefer, who was the first American to win an Olympi...
Leon Marchand energizes France in pool; Torri Huske wins gold for U.S.
PARIS -- Leon Marchand carried the expectations of a nation on the strongest of shoulders as he stormed to gold in the 400-meter individual medley Sunday in a cathartic victory at his home Olympics.,Marchand's triumph seemed almost predestined in a stadium festooned with tricolor flags. But the magi...
France investigating death threats to Israeli Olympians
PARIS -- French police have opened an investigation into death threats received by three Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, the Paris prosecutors office said Sunday.,Anti-cybercrime officers also are investigating the release of athletes' personal data on social networks on Friday and seeking to...
Australia's Alex de Minaur (hip) withdraws from Olympics singles
Alex de Minaur pulled out of Olympics singles competition, instead choosing to play only doubles in Paris as he deals with a hip injury.,The Australian No. 1 player was scheduled to play German Jan-Lennard Struff in the opening round of singles on the red clay courts at Roland Garros. Instead, Struf...
Simone Biles shakes off ankle pain, qualifies first for Olympics all-around
PARIS -- Simone Biles experienced pain in her left calf on the first day of the women's gymnastics competition at the Paris Olympics on Sunday but the American never considered aborting any of her four apparatus routines, her coaches said.,Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist competing in her th...
Samoan boxing coach dies at Paris Olympics
Lionel Fatu Elika, Samoa's national boxing coach, died at the Paris Olympics, the Samoa Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee announced Saturday.,Elika, 60, died Friday at the Olympic Village. Agence France-Presse said he went into cardiac arrest.,"Lionel was one of Samoa's top boxing ...
IOC apologizes to South Korea for opening ceremonies gaffe
The International Olympic Committee apologized to South Korea on Saturday for introducing the country's athletes as being from North Korea in the opening ceremonies.,In Friday's event, the announcer said the boat traveling along the Seine River was carrying athletes from the Democratic People's Repu...
Gold favorite Iga Swiatek cruises into second round in Paris
PARIS -- Poland's Iga Swiatek launched her bid for Olympic gold with a 6-2, 7-5 win over battling Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in the opening round of women's singles on Saturday.,Fifty days after clinching a fourth French Open title, the 23-year-old Swiatek returned to the Parisian clay and showed w...
Boats, rain, Lady Gaga, lights usher in 2024 Summer Games
PARIS -- Lady Gaga sang a French cabaret song near Notre-Dame cathedral, a giant plume of blue, white and red smoke was sent high above a bridge over the Seine and a winged man played accordion as the Olympics' opening ceremony marked the official start of the Summer Games in Paris on Friday.,A flee...
Simone Biles submits original skill for Olympics uneven bars
PARIS -- Simone Biles submitted an original skill on uneven bars ahead of the Paris Olympics, which would become the American's sixth signature move and first on bars if she can successfully complete it.,The new skill is a clear hip circle forward with 1.5 turns to handstand, a variation of an eleme...
United States blanks Zambia in Paris Games opener
PARIS -- The U.S. squad began its quest for a fifth gold medal with a resounding 3-0 victory over Zambia at Nice Stadium on the first day of the Olympics women's soccer competition on Thursday.,Trinity Rodman scored after a brilliant move in the 17th minute and Mallory Swanson found the net twice in...
Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic on course for early clash at Olympics
Tennis legends Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal could have an early showdown at the Paris Olympics.,Draws for the Olympic tournament were held Thursday at Roland Garros, with No. 1 seed Djokovic set to face Australia's Matthew Ebden in the first round.,If Nadal defeats Marton Fucsovics of Hungary in ...
Elena Rybakina pulls out of Olympic tennis competition
Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina withdrew from the Paris Olympics tennis competition on Thursday.,The 2022 Wimbledon champion pulled out just hours after the draw was announced at Roland Garros.,Rybakina, who was seeded third in singles, also was due to compete in mixed doubles with Alexander Bublik.,In ...
Steph Curry, Team USA draw tough road compared to Dream Team
PARIS -- The original "Dream Team" set the gold standard for Olympic basketball.,But today's American stars face a tougher test in Paris, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry said on Thursday, pointing to some of the NBA's biggest names hailing from around the globe.,The U.S. team had to contend with just n...
Pioneer Billie Jean King applauds progress in women's sports
PARIS -- The focus on gender equity at the Paris Olympics is the latest win in a terrific run of progress for women's sports, tennis champion and pioneer Billie Jean King told Reuters, as organizers trumpet the progress made for women at the Games.,The Paris Games are the first to see an equal split...
Women expected to be prominent in podium picture as USA hits Paris
PARIS -- American women from Simone Biles to Katie Ledecky and Sha'Carri Richardson will dominate the spotlight in Paris as the explosion in popularity of women's sports in the United States makes its way to the Olympic stage.,Those athletes are among the women featured prominently in ads for the Ga...
Reigning silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova WDs from Paris
Reigning Olympic silver medalist Marketa Vondrousova withdrew from the Paris Summer Games on Monday due to a hand injury.,The 2023 Wimbledon champion from the Czech Republic lost to Switerland's Belinda Bencic in the gold medal match at the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021.,Vondrousova had been planning ...
LeBron James to carry USA flag at Paris Olympics
LeBron James will be the flag-bearer for Team USA at the 2024 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony in Paris on Friday.,The NBA superstar's fellow Olympians selected the two-time gold medalist to carry the Stars and Stripes.,James, 39, is the first men's basketball player to receive the honor. Women's h...